{"id":30446,"date":"2012-06-20T03:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30446"},"modified":"2012-06-20T03:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:21:18","slug":"the-90s-army-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30446","title":{"rendered":"The 90s Army and you."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I found a article by Jessica Scott<\/a> that takes a look at the US Army of the 90s and today. Because I joined in 2006, I was wondering if I could get a idea of how on the mark this is. Lets start with this.<\/p>\n

\nSo now all we\u2019re hearing about is the return to the 90s army. When shiny boots, a pressed uniform and a good PT score meant you were a great leader. We\u2019re already seeing outstanding leaders punished for their less than stellar PT scores. Got an injury? Too bad, you\u2019re slacking so you\u2019re not the total army soldier we need.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know that I have seen some this happen now but this is the part that I wanted to ask about.<\/p>\n

\nLest we need a history lesson, let\u2019s not forget about the exodus from the force in 03-04, when a ridiculous amount of company grade officers fled in the face of the possibility of a long war. When far too many folks who had reached their 20 years of duty dropped their paperwork to avoid the conflict.<\/p>\n

We talk about how the SGTs and SSGs in our Army today don\u2019t know how to lead soldiers. Who\u2019s fault is that? Instead of pointing the finger at the force, let\u2019s look at the 90s army that abandoned the OIF-OEF army to fight the long war. The leaders of the OIF-OEF army were flexible enough to sustain combat over nearly a decade against an unconventional force. We were not flawless, not by any means. We made mistakes and some Really Bad Shit happened on our watch.<\/p>\n

But to tell a force that has sacrificed through more than a decade at war that the 90s army was somehow better than us? That the 90s Army was more professional because we looked like soldiers then? The shiny boots didn\u2019t stick around long enough to get dust on them in the deserts of Iraq. Too many of those pressed uniforms damn sure didn\u2019t bleed in combat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what do you say? How accurate is this in regards to a mass exodus to avoid deployment? Or for the view that the Army in the 90s was better remembered then it really was? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well I found a article by Jessica Scott that takes a look at the US Army … The 90s Army and you.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}